Organ Donations And Parallel Worlds
Am I on the right planet? I sometimes swear that I’m one of many who must feel that they slipped through to this world from a parallel life where things made more sense.
Organ donation
A good idea was proposed today in the idea of making organ donation compulsory unless you opt out (rather than the opposite state of affairs as it stands at the moment which has resulted in only 20% of the population on the register).
Things that make you go Whaaaaaattt!
The radio has had me wracked with extreme puzzlement as I heard someone say:
“I wouldn’t like the idea of somebody using my body parts it make me feel squeamish” ( a man by the way). Excuse me but you’d be dead. You’re hardly going to feel anything let alone feel squeamish.
And then I’ve heard others moan that because it would make those who don’t opt into the donation feel guilty then it’s not something we should do.
Again Whaaat? What is everybody drinking. Yes, if you have religious objections or some attachment to your expired bodily shell then opt out. It’s not like the proposal is to make it compulsory with no opt out .
I want my wormhole back
I really do want to know where and when I slipped through into this parallel Britain where petty small mindedness and ‘don’t tell me what to do even if I am wrong’ is an abiding cornerstone of the British character.
I bet I fell through into this alternative reality via one of the aisles at the supermarket when a freak wormhole opened up somewhere between the baked beans and tinned vegetables.
Typical!
It’s not just you. My whole day was like that yesterday – trying not to feel ‘got-at’ by other people’s petty small-mindedness.
Spent an hour and a half writing it all down to get it out of my system at the end of the day, but I’m not sure that actually helped!
Hello Kirsty. Glad it’s not just me though that hardly comforts you or I. I can’t tell you how many of my written rants still sit in the draft folder here that I decided not to publish. I keep them as a matter of record but they are just too long and rambling to be worthy of public consumption. Hope your day gets/was better today.
I heard a great suggestion on Jeremy Vine’s show today – change it to donation by default; then when people need a transplant, check whether they opted out. If they did, drop them to the bottom of the list or off it altogether, since they’re obviously against it in principle…
Hope you weren’t waiting too long for your partner and you got the feeling back in your bum OK
Hello Emma- I have heard that one bandied about and there would be many a time I would be happy to fully get behind it despite how divisive it would be. It’s amazing how almost nimby-ish some of the objections sounded. I hope at least the universal assumed opt in comes about as we’re decades behind many other countries who did the same thing.